by Kevin Zimmermann
(WHBL) – Chronic Wasting Disease, a fatal illness which affects our whitetail deer population, has been detected in an adult buck harvested in the Town of Polk in Washington County during the 2020 archery deer season. Because that’s within 10 miles of Ozaukee County, law requires enactment of a new two-year ban on baiting and feeding there, and renewal of a three-year baiting and feeding ban in Washington County.
Sheboygan County is already under those restrictions. Our own three-year ban was renewed after a CWD-positive adult doe was harvested in Plymouth Township last year, and that proximity put Fond du Lac County under a two-year baiting and feeding ban beginning this year.
The Wisconsin DNR began monitoring the state’s wild white-tailed deer population for CWD in 1999. The first positives were found in 2002.
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